| GABRIELE STÖTZER | |
| 1953 | Born in Emleben, Thuringia |
| 1973–1976 | Studies of German and Art Eduction at Erfurt University of Education |
| 1976 | Forced de-registration after solidarity with fellow de-registered students |
| 1977 | Hoheneck women's prison for 'state defamation after petition against Wolf Biermann's expatriation |
| 1980–1981 | Director of 'Galerie im Flur' (private gallery) in Erfurt until its liquidation by state security (StaSi) |
| ab 1981 | Performative photography, Super-8-films, publishing underground magazines in the art scene of Prenzlauer Bergs, fahsion object shows |
| 1984–1994 | Co-foundation of Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt |
| 1989 | Co-initiator of the occupation of the StaSi district administration in Erfurt |
| Co-foundation of citizens' initiative 'Women for Change' | |
| 1990 | Rehabilitation and subsequent submission of the diploma |
| 1990–1994 | Travel grant and stay at Solitude Castle in Stuttgart |
| Foundation of KUNSTHAUS ERFURT / Kunsthaus e.V. | |
| 1992/1994 | international lecture and reading tours combined with public exhibitions, publications, symposia as well as working stipe |
| 1994–2004 | Extended stays in Holland, publication of own texts, various contributions to the artistic reappraisal about the GDR |
| Since 2010 | Teaching performance at University of Erfurt |
| 2013 | Federal Cross of Merit for her political and artistic commitment in the GDR |
| 2020 | Artist in Residence at Atelierhaus, Schwanenwerder, Berlin |
| Lives and works in Erfurt | |
| SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION) | |
| 2024 | Flucht in die Öffentlichkeit, Prolog zum F/Stop Festival, Leipzig |
| Unverschämt Rebellisch, Das Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Magdeburg | |
| Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, USA | |
| Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, Phoenix Art Museum, USA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Kanada | |
| Soft Power, DAS MINSK, Potsdam | |
| 2023 | Die Austreibung aus dem Paradies, Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn |
| Body Gestures and Bodily Signs. Photography, Galerie Pankow, Berlin | |
| 2021 | I come from a country that now longer exists, Galeria Monopol, Warsaw |
| Verführung, LOOCK Galerie, Berlin | |
| Copenhagen Short Film Festival | |
| 2019 | Bewußtes Unvermögen: Das Archiv Gabriele Stötzer, GfZK, Leipzig |
| 2017 | Das Brennen der Worte im Mund, Galerie Kunstraum KTR, Leipzig |
| 2013 | Schwingungskurve, Klassikstiftung Weimar |
| GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION) | |
| 2024 | Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, USA |
| Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, Phoenix Art Museum, USA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada | |
| 2023 | Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA |
| The Sixties Experiment, Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, USA | |
| 2022 | herzwärts wild. Umbrüche 1982–97. Künstlerinnen aus der DDR, BLMK, Cottbus |
| Restless Bodies. Ostdeutsche Fotografie 1980–89, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania | |
| zer brech lich, Brandenburgisches Museum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus | |
| parallel public, Tweed Museum, Minnesota, USA | |
| 2021 | Hosen haben Röcke an – mit Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt, ngbk, Berlin |
| Stich für Stich. Faden um Faden. Textile Bild/Räume, BLMK, Cottbus | |
| Female Sensibility. Feministische Avantgarde aus der Sammlung Verbund, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz | |
| 2020 | Werk und Fortsetzung, EIGENHEIM Berlin |
| Poetry & Performance. The Eastern Europe Perspecitve, Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Polen | |
| 2019 | The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists behind the Iron Curtain, Wende Museum Los Angeles, USA |
| Restless Bodies. Ostdeutsche Fotografie 1980–89, Rencontres de la Photographie Arles, Frankreich | |
| Die schaffende Galathea. Frauen sehen Frauen, Kunsthalle Talstraße, Halle/Saale | |
| 2018 | Medea muckt auf. Radikale Künstlerinnen hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang“, Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden |
| Artists & Agents, Kunsthalle Zürich, Schweiz | |
| Underground Improvisation, Akademie der Künste Berlin | |
| Gerissene Fäden. Annette Messager und Gabriele Stötzer, BLMK, | |
| Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus, | |
| 2016 | Gegenstimmen, Martin Gropiusbau, Berlin |
| 2015 | RE:BELLION//RE:LIGION//RE:FORM, Künstler agieren im Umbruch, Zwickau, Reutlingen |
| 2013 | Zwischen Ausstieg und Aktion, Kunsthalle Erfurt |
| Filmausstellung Dresden, Up till now, GfZK Leipzig | |
| 2012 | Abschied von Ikarus, Bildwelten in der DDR-neu gesehen, Neues Museum Weimar |
| 2011 | Entdeckt! Rebellische Künstlerinnen der DDR, Kunsthalle Mannheim |
| Trashing Performance, Tate Modern, London | |
| 2009–2012 | re.act.feminism, Wanderausstellung, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdansk, Poland, Galerija Miroslav, Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark, Tallinna Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain |
| 1997 | Boheme und Diktatur in der DDR“ im Deutschen Historischen Museum in Berlin |
| 1990 | L'autre Allemagne – das andere Deutschland, La Villette, Paris |
| COLLECTIONS (SELECTION) | |
| Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin | |
| Brandenburgisches Museum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus | |
| Deutsches Historisches Museum, Leipzig | |
| Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig | |
| Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Andreasstraße, Erfurt | |
| Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles | |
| Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger, Cambridge | |
| Klassik Stiftung Weimar | |
| Sammlung des Deutschen Bundestages, Berlin | |
| SAMMLUNG VERBUND Vienna | |
| Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden | |
| Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main | |
| Walker Art Center, Minneapolis | |
| Zeitgeschichtliches Forum, Leipzig |